Software Metrics & Quality Assurance

Unit 1

What Is Software Quality: Quality: Popular Views, Quality Professional Views, Software Quality, Total Quality Management and Summary. Fundamentals Of Measurement Theory:

Definition, Operational Definition, And Measurement, Level Of Measurement, Some Basic Measures, Reliability And Validity, Measurement Errors, Be Careful With Correlation, Criteria For Causality, Summary. Software Quality Metrics Overview: Product Quality Metrics, In Process Quality Metrics, Metrics for Software Maintenance, Examples For Metrics Programs, Collecting Software Engineering Data.

Unit 2

Applying The Seven Basic Quality Tools In Software Development: Ishikawa’s Seven Basic Tools, Checklist, Pareo Diagram, Histogram, Run Charts, Scatter Diagram, Control Chart, Cause And Effect Diagram. The Rayleigh Model: Reliability Models, The Rayleigh Model Basic Assumptions, Implementation, Reliability And Predictive Validity.

Unit 3

Complexity Metrics And Models: Lines Of Code, Halstead’s Software Science , Cyclomatic Complexity Syntactic Metrics, An Example Of Module Design Metrics In Practice .Metric And Lessons Learned For Object Oriented Projects: Object Oriented Concepts And Constructs, Design And Complexity Metrics, Productivity Metrics, Quality And Quality Management Metrics, Lessons Learned For object oriented Projects.

Unit 4

Availability Metrics: Definition And Measurement Of System Availability, Reliability Availability And Defect Rate, Collecting Customer Outage Data For Quality Improvement, In Process Metrics For Outage And Availability .Conducting Software Project Assessment :Audit Ad Assessment , Software Process Maturity Assessment And Software Project Assessment , Software Process Assessment A Proponed Software Project Assessment Method.

Unit 5

Dos And Don’ts Of Software Process Improvement :Measuring Process Maturity, Measuring Process Capability, Staged Versus Continuous Debating Religion, Measuring Levels Is Not Enough, Establishing The Alignment Principle , Take Time Getting Faster, Keep it Simple Or Face Decomplexification, Measuring The Value Of Process Improvement , Measuring Process Compliance , Celebrate The Journey Not Just The Destination. Using Function Point Metrics to Measure Software Process Improvement: Software Process Improvement Sequences, Process Improvement Economies, Measuring Process Improvement at Activity Levels.